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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF EPITETRASTICHUS GIRAULT. 
Females. 
Metallic green or purple species. 
Dark metallic green, all of legs (except first coxa) scape and pedicel orange yellow; 
rest of antenna black; funicle 3 subequal to pedicel, joint 1 subequal to the 
club; abdomen yellowish at extreme base; propodeum with a pair of widely 
diverging median carina). longfellom Girault. 
The same but pedicel nearly black, the abdomen without yellow; propodeum with a 
single median carina which forks at apex. nymplia Girault. 
Whole body dark metallic green or purple, the postscutellum, legs (except bases of 
coxes), tegulas, scape and pedicel lemon yellow; funicle 3 longer than pedicel; 
propodeum with a median carina and a lateral carina just mesad of the spiracle 
which at apex loops back to the lateral side of spiracle. 
fulvipostscutellum Girault. 
Black species. 
Postscutellum, abdomen except tip of ovipositor valves, legs and antenna), pale lemon 
yellow. Funicle 1 subequal to pedicel. flavipostcutellum Girault. 
Distal third of scutum, scutelliun, parapsides except cephalad, caudal third of axillae, 
deep orange; abdomen dusky, suffused with yellowish at extreme base; vertex 
and ventral face orange, also extreme latero-cephalic angle of scutum and sides 
of pronotum; legs yellow. Funicle 1 subequal to pedicel. 
rufiscutellum Girault. 
Golden or honey yellow species. 
Golden yellow; a large, obconical area from cephalic margin of scutum to proximal 
third of scutcllum, most of axilla), propodeum and six broad stripes across 
abdomen each stripe with a yellow spot in it on each side of meson centrally, 
black. Funicle 1 longer, funicle 3 shorter, than the pedicel. 
speciosissimus Girault. 
Honey yellow; scutum reddish; abdomen along each margin from base to distal two 
thirds, tip of valves of ovipositor and three cross-stripes on abdomen within 
proximal half, black; funicle 3 subequal to pedicel; median carina quadrate. 
trifascmtus Girault. 
Orange yellow; abdomen, middle of occiput, flagellum, distal half of scape and face 
of pronotum, black; funicle joints not much longer than wide; lateral carina 
running directly from the spiracle. nigriventris Girault.* 
Genus QUADRASTICHUS Girault. 
Synonym: Epichry so charts Girault. 
Differs from Pcntastichus Ashmead in bearing short marginal cilia on the fore wing, 
the antenna) 8-jointed with one ring-joint, the club 2-jointed. Abdomen depressed, ovate, the 
ovipositor not exserted. 
1. QUADRASTICHUS NIGRINOTATUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Canary yellow; the wings hyaline; meson of pronotum, meson of scutum centrally 
(divided along median line), outer lateral angle of pronotum, apices of axilla), median line of 
* Xanther, p. 205. 
